The UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has begun a consultation on amendments to its guidance on the strategic report which aims to improve non-financial reporting by companies. The guidance was originally issued in 2014 when strategic reports were introduced.
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No, says veteran US corporate governance activist James McRitichie, In his blog, CorpGov.net, Jim emphatically rebuts the claims made in a paper recently published by the US Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness which argues that the …
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The UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has removed its tier three category of asset managers, which suggested they required improvement, in their adherence to its stewardship code.
The FRC launched an assessment in December 2015 of the signatories to …
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Germany’s laws on employee participation giving staff based in the country the right to vote for half of the membership of its supervisory board do not contravene the EU’s law on the free movement of people, the European Court of …
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The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched a consultation on proposals to create a new category within its premium listing regime to cater for companies controlled by a shareholder that is a sovereign country.
Last February the FCA launched …
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The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has required listed companies to have at least one woman director within three years which it said would lead to a doubling of the number of female directors in the country.
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Australia’s Financial Services Council (FSC) which represents the country’s fund management and pensions industry has launched an Internal Governance and Asset Stewardship Standard for investment managers and asset owners.
This is the first stewardship code introduced in Australia and the …
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Trade union bodies, the TUC and the GMB, commented that they would have liked more radical proposals from Matthew Taylor and his team in his Good Work report reviewing modern employment practices that were published last week.
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